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Deep Spring Center Thought for Today If one never were to experience this dark night of the soul, one’s compassion really would be limited. One may have a belief, ‘I can be compassionate with that which is light and beautiful and loving in myself and others’ but one has never tested it to see […] One of the amazing gifts of wintering on Pine Island is the variety of plant life that flourishes in the sunshine and warmth of Southwestern Florida. People (and plants) can be so very creative. People and plants can also be quite destructive. This succulent was planted in the center of a landscape boulder and […] Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer WORD […] Joy to forgive and joy to be forgiven hang level in the balances of love. ~ Richard Garnett Last evening after our Zoom dominoes game ended, Linda asked us when we are planning to head south. One of the realities of the pandemic: It is difficult to plan. The one thing we have put […] Every day we pray for the willingness to make sane choices about our lives. ~ from the book Answers in the Heart We will be having left-over Thanksgiving for dinner tonight. Last evening, John and I shared the traditional fare with Janis and Larry! We bought the turkey. She roasted it. She made deviled eggs […] Deep Spring Center Thought for Today When you stay in the relative reality box, you create the kind of fights with each other, ‘I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ You can’t hear each other. You become more and more polarized. And this of course is consonant with the lower stages of consciousness, […] I am back in the tiny house. It was such a gift going on retreat. Being in Carol’s Cozy Cottage felt so much like Still Waters, where my soul has been nurtured for decades. While on retreat, a dharma sister shared a powerful poem she saw in a post by a Chicago Cognitive Behavior […] Elizabeth Lesser wrote a New York Times bestselling book, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (Random House). That book has sold more than 300,000 copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Lesser says, “When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a […] |
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